The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. The original scenario was by Ivan Vsevolozhsky after Charles Perrault's fairy tale La Belle au Bois Dormant, with choreography by Marius Petipa. The ballet premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on 15 January 1890 and has remained one of the most famous ballets of all time.
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completed in 1889
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Tchaikovsky was approached by the Director of the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky on 25 May 1888
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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.
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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three balle
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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.
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